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+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning elections."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning elections."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 327"
+citation: "Indiana SB 327 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["SECRETARY OF STATE", "ELECTIONS generally"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Erin Houchin", "Greg Walker", "Jon Ford", "Kathy Richardson"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-04"
+last_action: "2018-03-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61787e7d-f57f-45f2-844b-5914a7338dd8"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/327"
+source_hash: "9faaa6debe4c7ebed33626ce048ca8521b6bdaf6254eda44a32be21ee90dc295"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
+---
+
+# Indiana SB 327 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning elections.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0327/versions/sb0327.05.engh)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0327/versions/sb0327.06.enrh)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0327/versions/sb0327.01.intr)
+4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0327/versions/sb0327.04.comh)
+5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0327/versions/sb0327.03.coms)
+6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0327/versions/sb0327.02.coms)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 327 - Richardson - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 327 - Walker - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
+- Greg Walker — primary (person)
+- Jon Ford — primary (person)
+- Kathy Richardson — primary (person)
+- Chris Judy — cosponsor (person)
+- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
+- John Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Milo Smith — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-04** Authored by Senator Walker
+- **2018-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2018-01-23** Pursuant to Senate Rule 68(b); reassigned to Committee on Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-25** Senator Breaux added as coauthor
+- **2018-01-29** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-01** Senator Houchin added as second author
+- **2018-02-01** Senator Ford added as third author
+- **2018-02-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 141: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-02-05** House sponsor: Representative Richardson
+- **2018-02-05** Cosponsors: Representatives Judy and Smith, M.
+- **2018-02-06** Referred to the House
+- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-03-01** Amendment #3 (Smith M) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2018-03-01** Amendment #2 (Hatfield) ruled out of order `amendment-failure`
+- **2018-03-01** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-01** Representative Bartlett added as cosponsor
+- **2018-03-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 316: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-03-06** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2018-03-06** Motion to concur filed
+- **2018-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 360: yeas 46, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
+- **2018-03-07** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2018-03-15** Public Law 100
+- **2018-03-15** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/61787e7d-f57f-45f2-844b-5914a7338dd8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+